Is Python really a scripting language?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:59:16 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> In any case, I would say that your exercise is the Wrong Way to go about 
> it. A task as simple as "produce PDF output from this file" shouldn't 
> need access to the internals of the OpenOffice GUI application. The Right 
> Way (in some Ideal World where OO wasn't so stupid) would be some 
> variation of:
> 
> oowriter --print some.doc | ps2pdf

Can be done this way… ::

 soffice -invisible macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsPDF(some.doc)

…if you write a small macro in StarBasic for the conversion.

Full story:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch